Gluing Ivory (was:looking in the archive)

Roy Peters RHPeters@ix.netcom.com
Wed, 3 Dec 1997 00:11:44 -0500


In a similar vein, I have been using a white touchup marker to color the
keytop.  After letting it dry, then have used a new glue I found called
Weldbond, which claims to be a "Universal Space Age Adhesive".  It looks
alot like Elmer's , but works well on ivories.

Roy Peters
Cincinnati
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Jolly <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 02, 1997 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: Gluing Ivory (was:looking in the archive)


>       Had a situation in a customers home with two ivories off, the wood
>was showing clean, As the customer was out of town I gave her two choices,
>reglue with CA glue and have two keys stand out. Or take the keys back to
>the shop, fix and mail back.  She suggested using typist 'white out'
>Suprise it worked fine.
>  Out of the mouth's of babes and suckling's.
>Regards Roger
>Roger Jolly
>University of Saskatchewan
>Dept. of Music.
>



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